Psychological Selection and Optimal Experience Across Cultures
Social Empowerment through Personal Growth
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book conveys the message that educating people to enjoy engagement and involvement in activities relevant and meaningful for social welfare can foster the harmonious development of human communities, and the peaceful cohabitation of cultures.
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This book conveys the message that educating people to enjoy engagement and involvement in activities relevant and meaningful for social welfare can foster the harmonious development of human communities, and the peaceful cohabitation of cultures.
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What does Western science know about the relationship between individual well-being and cultural trends? What can learn from other cultural traditions? What do the recent advancements in positive psychology teach us on this issue, particularly the eudaimonic framework, which emphasizes the connections between personal well-being and social welfare?
People grow and live in cultures that deeply influence their values, aspirations and behaviors. However, individuals in their turn play an active role in building their own goals, growth trajectories and social roles, at the same time influencing culture trends. This process, defined psychological selection, is related to the individual pursuit of well-being People preferentially select and cultivate in their lives activities, interests, and relationships associated with optimal experience, a state of deep engagement, concentration, and enjoyment. Several cross-cultural studies confirmed the positive and rewarding features of optimal experience. Based on these evidences, this book offers a new perspective in the study of human behavior. Highlighting the interplay between individual and cultural growth trajectories, it conveys a core message: educating people to enjoy engagement and involvement in activities that can be relevant and meaningful for social welfare is a premise to foster the harmonious development of human communities, and the peaceful cohabitation of cultures.
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IntroductionPart I Theory and methodsChapter 1: Hedonism and eudaimonism in positive psychology1.1 Positive psychology: past and present1.2 The pursuit of happiness: two philosophical traditions1.2.1 Hedonia and eudaimonia in psychology1.2.1.1 The hedonic view1.2.1.2 The eudaimonic view1.3 Happiness: the on-going debate1.3.1 Integrating perspectives1.3.2 Happiness and diversityReferencesChapter 2: Biology, culture and human behavior2.1 Genetic and epigenetic transmission: a new perspective2.2 The emergence of culture2.2.1 Cultural evolution2.2.2 Cultural differentiation and inter-cultural relations2.2.3 Social norms and their analysis: The cultural network2.3 The role of individualsReferencesChapter 3: Psychological selection and optimal experience3.1 Human beings and complexity3.2 Mind, consciousness and human agency3.3 Attention and the stream of subjective experience3.4 Optimal experience and order in consciousness3.5 Optimal experience, complexity, and psychological selection3.6 The neurophysiological underpinnings of optimal experience3.7 Optimal experience and positive human functioning: A contribution to eudaimoniaReferencesChapter 4: Instruments and methods in flow research4.1 The assessment of optimal experience4.2 Interviews and direct observation4.3 Single-administration questionnaires4.3.1 Flow Questionnaire and the measurement of psychological selection4.3.2 The Flow Short Scale4.3.3 The Flow State Scale and the Dispositional Flow Scale4.3.4 The WOrk-reLated Flow Inventory4.3.5 Optimal Experience Survey4.3.5 Choosing between questionnaires4.4 Experimental studies4.5 Experience Sampling Method4.5.1 ESM data coding and analysis4.5.2 The advantages and disadvantages of online measurement4.6 The Experience Fluctuation Model4.7 Challenges and skills in the flow construct4.8 Latest directions in flow methodologyAppendixReferencesChapter 5: The phenomenology of optimal experience in daily life5.1 The family of optimal experiences5.2 The motivational dimension
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of optimal experience5.3 Factors favoring optimal experience5.3.1 Individual characteristics5.3.2 Cultural and contextual features5.4 Optimal experience and related constructs: similarities and differences5.4.1 Peak experience5.4.2 Enduring and situational involvement5.4.3 Hedonic and eudaimonic constructsReferencesChapter 6: Optimal experience and meditation: Western and Asian approaches to well-being6.1 Flow and meditation: a controversial issue6.2 Consciousness studies in the Indian tradition6.2.1 Levels of consciousness and mind functioning6.3 Flow and meditation: differences and analogies6.3.1 The epistemological perspective6.3.2 The neurophysiological perspective6.3.3 The phenomenological perspective6.4 Meditation, flow and human developmentReferencesPart II ApplicationsChapter 7: Optimal experience across cultures7.1 Psychology and cultures7.1.1 Cultural dimensions of psychological processes7.2 Flow and psychological selection across cultures7.2.1 Optimal activities across cultures7.2.2 Optimal experience across activities and cultures7.2.2.1 Flow in productive activities7.2.2.2 Flow in leisure7.2.2.3 Flow in interactions7.2.2.4 Flow and psychological selection7.3 Adolescence across cultures: finding flow, building the future7.4 Culture and optimal experience: some general remarksReferencesChapter 8 Work: A paradox in flow research81 Work and leisure: Two separate domains?8.2 The quality of experience associated with work: a persistent paradox8.2.1 Optimal experience between work and leisure across professions8.3 Individual characteristics, job resources and cultures8.4 Flow at work and individuals' and organizations' well-being8.5 Work as core of psychological selection8.5.1 Career building: The case of musicians8.5.2 Teachers and cultural transmission: The centrality of relationshipsReferencesChapter 9: Free time: an opportunity for growth, recreation, or stagnation9.1 Conceptualizing free time9.2 The quality of experience of leisure activities9.2.1 Sports and hobbies as opportunities for serious leisure9.2.2 The television paradox and media use9.3 Individual characteristics, cultural features and optimal experience in leisure9.4 Free time and well-being: what you do and how long you do it9.5 Leisure and psychological selection9.5.1 The experience of rock climbing and mountaineering9.5.2 Track-and-field: amateurs and professionalsReferencesChapter 10: Relationships: safe harbor for flow explorers10.1 Introduction10.2 Family relationships and well-being10.2.1 Parenting: biology, culture, and subjective experience10.2.2 Adolescents and family: constraints and opportunities10.2.3 Sibling relations: a case study on twins10.3 Friendship construction through shared experiences10.4 Relationships across cultures: daily experience and lifelong perspectives10.4.1 Relationships as the core of Gypsy culture10.4.2. Solitude across cultures and among Navajos10.5 Concluding remarksReferencesChapter 11: Education, learning and cultural transmission11.1 Education across cultures11.2 The quality of experience of learning activities11.2.1 Unraveling cultural differences11.3 Flow and learning: the influence of individual and contextual factors11.3.1 Individual characteristics11.3.2 Cultural and contextual features11.4 The impact of optimal experience on students' well-being and development11.5 Learning activities and psychological selection: a comparison between Italy and Nepal11.6 Concluding remarksReferencesChapter 12: Optimal experience and religious practice12.1 Religiousness and spirituality: looking for definitions12.1.1 Religion and well-being: empirical evidence12.2 Religious practice and optimal experience across cultures12.2.1 Religious practice and flow: an infrequent association12.2.2 Religion in Asian cultures: Indonesia, India, and Thailand12.2.3 Religious ceremonies and Navajo identity12.2.4 Migration from Africa and religious practice12.3 Religion and faith as the core of psychological selection12.4 Believers and followers, disciples and explorersReferencesChapter 13: Acculturation and optimal experience13.1 Acculturation13.2 Optimal experience and migration13.2.1 Living in India and living abroad13.2.2 The daily life of East European women in Italy13.3 Navajos: the bicultural people13.4 Concluding remarksReferencesChapter 14: Flow and health: a bio-psycho-social perspective14.1 Introduction14.2 The three dimensions of health14.3 A positive perspective on health and disease14.4 Retrieving optimal experience in extraordinary circumstances14.4.1 Living with chronic disease14.4.2 Positive growth after trauma14.4.3 Body image and eating disorders14.4.4 Mental health14.4.5 Contextual influences and cultural differencesReferencesChapter 15: Psychosocial maladjustment and mimetic flow15.1 Introduction15.2 Cultural change and its impact on children15.2.1 Child work: resources or exploitation?15.2.2 From villages to cities, from home to the streets15.2.3 Street children in Western countries15.2.4 Successful intervention: a major challenge15.2.5 Investigation children's experience and expectation15.2.5.1 Italy: adolescents on the street15.2.5.2 Italy: girls living in institution15.2.5.3 Kenya: the children of Kivuli15.2.5.4 Brazil: Camihos de vida15.2.6 Matching opportunities with expectations: a crucial issue15.3 Can flow be maladaptive?15.3.1 Drug intake and mimetic optimal experiences15.3.2 Detoxification programs: the role of challenges and meanings15.4 Building positive identitiesReferencesEpilogue
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Autoren-Porträt von Antonella Delle Fave, Fausto Massimini, Marta Bassi
Antonella Delle Fave, MD specialized in Clinical Psychology, is professor of Psychology at the University of Milano, Italy. Her studies concern optimal experience and individual psychological selection, that is the lifelong process of differential replication and cultivation of activities and competencies. Her cross-cultural studies have produced the largest international data bank on these topics. On the basis of research findings, she has developed and supervised intervention projects in the domains of health and education, disability and social maladjustment. She is author of 120 articles and chapters in peer-reviewed books, author/editor of 10 books and 2 special journal issues, member of several Editorial Boards and Boards of Reviewers. She is presently President of the European Network of Positive Psychology (ENPP) and member of the Board of Directors of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Antonella Delle Fave , Fausto Massimini , Marta Bassi
- 2010, 2011., 369 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 23,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 9048198755
- ISBN-13: 9789048198757
Sprache:
Englisch
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